Search for dissertations about: "‘cultural level’"

Showing result 21 - 25 of 300 swedish dissertations containing the words ‘cultural level’.

  2. 21. Caught in Culture? : Cultural Transformation through HIV/AIDS Prevention Education in Zambia

    Author : Ellen Carm; Ulf Fredriksson; David Stephens; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; HIV AIDS prevention education; culture; transformation; multi-voiced and leveled strategy; cultural historical activity theory; internationell pedagogik; International Education;

    Abstract : The study explores the role and contribution of education in developing a localized and relevant HIV/AIDS prevention strategy through a multi-voiced approach, involving the educational institutions, as well as the traditional leaders, community-members, including parents. The study comprised all public schools in one Zambian province from 2002-2008. READ MORE

  4. 22. Embodied Citizenship in the Making : Bolivian Urban Youth at the Crossroads of Social Hierarchies

    Author : Nika Rasmussen; Charlotta Widmark; Thaïs Machado-Borges; Andrew Canessa; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Youth; Social Hierarchies; Citizenship; Everyday Life; Intersectionality; Political Practices; Nationhood; Bolivia; Kulturantropologi; Cultural Anthropology;

    Abstract : This thesis analyses the body as a nexus for playing out power relations and feelings of belonging. Based upon twelve months of fieldwork amongst young urban people living in La Paz and El Alto, it examines the connections between bodily conceptions, social hierarchies and societal inclusions. READ MORE

  5. 23. A Cross-Cultural Approach to Psychological Mechanisms Underlying Emotional Reactions to Music

    Author : Gonçalo Barradas; Patrik Juslin; Terry Hartig; Suvi Saarikallio; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; cross-cultural perspective; emotion; functions; music; mechanisms; Psychology; Psykologi;

    Abstract : Music plays a crucial role in everyday life by enabling listeners to seek individual emotional experiences. To explain why such emotions occur, we must understand the underlying process that mediates between surface-level features of the music and aroused emotions. READ MORE

  6. 24. Pushing borders : Cultural workers in the restructuring of post-industrial cities

    Author : Chiara Valli; Brett Christophers; Dominic Power; Sara Gonzalez; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Social and Economic Geography; Kulturgeografi; gentrification; displacement; creative labor; cultural labor; social movements; resistance; Milan; Brooklyn; Urban studies;

    Abstract : This research explores the agency and positioning of cultural workers in the restructuring of contemporary cities. This positioning is ambiguous. READ MORE

  7. 25. Exposure to household air pollution among women and children in Ethiopia: Socio-cultural factors and the association with airway health

    Author : Mulugeta Tamire; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Keywords : MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; Household air pollution; Solid fuel use; Streptococcus pneumoniae; Particulate matter; socio-cultural barriers; Ethiopia;

    Abstract : Abstract Using solid fuel generates emissions of many health-damaging pollutants including inhalable fine particulate matter (PM2.5). Such exposure is known to cause morbidity and mortality in low- and middle-income countries, including Ethiopia, where solid fuel, mainly wood, is a primary source of energy. READ MORE